Training Center (NTC)
Knowledge Resource Center |
Here, you can view various presentations, satellite broadcasts, video clips, job aids and resources to help you gain a better understanding of the many BLM processes and programs. Just click on the link to view any of the resources. |
Topic | Description | ||
National Training Center | |||
| NTC Facilities Orientation Video | This video will provide the first time visitor with important information about the BLM - National Training Center. | ||
| A Conversation with BLM Director Jim Caswell | This telecast was live from the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, September 6, 2007, and introduced BLM’s new Director, Jim Caswell, to the bureau workforce. Please note that this presentation is accessible to BLM employees only. | ||
| Managing For Excellence Initiative - A Status Report | This presentation is of the live satellite broadcast June 14, 2007 originating from the BLM - NTC. Please note that this presentation is accessible to BLM employees only. | ||
| Color of Tomorrow | The Color of Tomorrow was a live broadcast and webcast from the National Conservation Training Center on June 27, 2007. It was sponsored by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the National Conservation Training Center, Fish and Wildlife Service, Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, the Association of Conservation Information and KAMU-TV/DT. Through this broadcast learn about diversity efforts across the nation and hear from natural resource leaders who are engaging new audiences and making a difference in their communities. A panel of experts in race and community relations will round out the program discussing barriers and opportunities to move forward at this critical time. Please note that this presentation is accessible to BLM employees only. | ||
| BLM's Leadership Excellence | Listen to BLM leaders, current and retired, discuss the leadership competencies needed for effective leadership in the BLM. Their comments and insights are organized around the OPM Executive Core Qualifications of Leading Change, Leading People, Building Coalitions and Communications, Results Driven and Business Acumen. | ||
| The BLM Director's Forum - What the Healthy Land Initiative Means to You | In opening remarks from Washington D.C., Department of the Interior Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, discussed what HLI means to the BLM and to the success of its mission; how intense resource conflicts - such as energy production vs. wildlife habitat - test BLM's ability to provide balanced management for multiple use; and how HLI can successfully address these challenges through landscape-level decision making, new tools, expanded information resources, and strengthened partnerships. Next, BLM Director, Jim Caswell, emphasized the relevance of HLI for every management area and every part of BLM's mission. He encouraged BLM employees to "think outside the box" in seeking creative and innovative new approaches for applying HLI tools and principles to local resource management challenges. A panel of three BLM Field Managers then presented HLI case studies of their own districts, using visual images to introduce viewers to the resources they manage and the conflicts they deal with. Doug Burger- Pecos, NM, District Manager, showed viewers how the HLI project "Restore New Mexico" is improving woodlands, grasslands and riparian areas through large-scale restoration, treatment of invasive brush, and reclamation of historical oil and gas sites. Mary Jo Rugwell - Field Manager in the Kemmerer, WY, Field Office, presented a tour of HLI projects across southwestern Wyoming carried out under the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative. The projects include range improvements, treatment of invasive Tamarisk, prescribed fire, and habitat enhancement for the once nearly extinct Trumpeter Swan. Pat Fosse - Assistant Field Manager in the Dillon, MT, Field Office, introduced viewers to the South Tobacco Roots watershed, a microcosm of the Wildland Urban Interface, where private landowners, conservation groups, local, state and federal partners are working together to address a broad variety of resource health and land access issues across a landscape of complex ownership patterns. Following the HLI presentations, viewers participated in a series of discussions, including "Getting HLI started," success stories, best management practices, partnerships, impediments and solutions. | ||
Planning | |||
 Click to Play Video | What is Metadata and why is it important? This two-minute video answers these questions and reinforces the value of using metadata for a geospatial data set. Metadata describes the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of the data. Metadata is critical to preserving the usefulness of data over time. Without proper documentation, a data set is incomplete, and therefore it is useless (zero value) to the organization. The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC), in accordance with Executive Order 12906, provides information on metadata, content standards, clearinghouse nodes and other data related links. www.fgdc.gov | ||
| DOI Adaptive Management Overview and Orientation | Adaptive Management: the U.S. Department of the Interior Technical Guide was recently released. A Secretarial Order calls for the Guide to serve as the technical basis for adaptive management decision making. The Guide represents an important step in the Department’s efforts to engage partners in the cooperative conservation and management of our nation’s natural resources. This recorded broadcast provides an overview and orientation of the Adaptive Management Technical Guide. It provides a brief overview of adaptive management concepts and describes circumstances where adaptive management is appropriate. | ||
| DOI Implementing Adaptive Management: Set-Up Phase | This 2 hour broadcast is the 2nd in a series to introduce you to the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Adaptive Management Technical Guide. The objectives are to:
The presenters introduced in the Introduction segment are: Ken Williams (USGS), Karen Simms (BLM), Mike Mayer (NPS), Fred Johnson (FWS), Jim Nichols (USGS), Host - Bert Frost (NPS) (Please note that this presentation is also available in DOI LEARN as an online course. If you would like to get credit for viewing this presentation, log into DOI LEARN, locate the course in the Course Catalog and register for it. Once you have registered, go to your My Courses view to launch the course. Upon completion, your student transcript will be updated and you will be able to print a Completion Certificate.) | ||
| DOI Implementing Adaptive Management: Iterative Phase | This 2 hour broadcast is the 3rd in a series of three broadcasts to introduce you to the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Adaptive Management Technical Guide. The objectives are to:
Presenters: Target Audience: Technical field staff, Line Officers, and Field and Regional Managers in the DOI; however, it is available to anyone interested in adaptive management. (Please note that this presentation is also available in DOI LEARN as an online course. If you would like to get credit for viewing this presentation, log into DOI LEARN, locate the course in the Course Catalog and register for it. Once you have registered, go to your My Courses view to launch the course. Upon completion, your student transcript will be updated and you will be able to print a Completion Certificate.) | ||
| Cumulative Effects | This 3-hour broadcast on cumulative impacts analysis aired June 29, 2006 from the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona. It has been separated into smaller segments to allow for quicker video downloads. Materials for the broadcast can be viewed or printed by selecting the Materials button on the left. Listen to unique perspectives on cumulative impacts from experts in the field, including Ted Boling (CEQ), Leslie Wildesen (ETCI), Roger Nesbit (Pacific Northwest Region Solicitor’s Office), Richard Hardt (BLM’s Eugene [Oregon] District), Walt George (BLM’s Wyoming State Office). Learn from your peers by listening to the question and answer segments with the audience. Don’t forget to watch the last segment, in which each presenter gives words of wisdom on cumulative effects in their closing remarks. Contact mailto:Cathy_Humphrey@blm.gov (602-906-5536) for additional training on cumulative effects, NEPA, planning, or alternative dispute resolution for natural resources. Please note that this presentation is accessible to BLM employees only. | ||
Recreation & Visitors Services | |||
| Visual Resource Management (VRM) and Fluid Minerals | The Visual Resource Management (VRM) system provides tools to analyze the landscape and proposed projects to reduce the visual contrast upon the land. These six video segments provide an overview of the VRM System, how to analyze a landscape, siting and earthwork considerations to reduce visual contrast, and visual simulations. These segments are from a Bureau of Land Management broadcast on VRM and Fluid minerals. You can also download a notebook that covers best management practices, as applied to fluid minerals. For information on VRM training opportunities, contact Elvin Clapp at 602-906-5506 or mailto:elvin_clapp@blm.gov?subject=From%20the%20KRC%2C%20VRM | ||
Minerals
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| SHERPA For Reclamation Bonds - BLM Course 3800-15 | This two day satellite broadcast was broadcast live from the Bureau of Land Management National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona. It was delivered over a two day period through four broadcast sessions. The class focused on the use and application of SHERPA For Reclamation Bonds, which is a computer program used to estimate costs of reclamation. Please note that this presentation is accessible to BLM employees only. | ||
| Session One | Session 1 consists of the following topics: Introduction, SHERPA Basics, Methodology, and Data Entry. | ||
| Session Two | Session 2 covers Data Entry, Project Data Screens, Earthwork Screen, Load - Dump - Haul, Fence Installation and Project Results. | ||
| Session Three | Session 3 is divided into two parts. Part One covers the Exercise Review; Project Data Screen; Wages & Supplies; Saving Files; Excavate and Stockpile; Regrade; Apply Topsoil; Excavate, Load, Haul & Dump-Dam Material and Slope Reduction. Part Two covers Ditch Excavation; Shaft Closure; Decline Closure; Drill Hole Closure; Fence Installation; Scarifying; Soil Amendment; Seeding; Erosion Control Matting and Organic Soil Amendment. | ||
| Session Four | Session 4 is divided into two parts. Part One covers WO Policy Comments; Project Summary Screens; Road Rehabilitation Example; Site Work Screen; Revegetation; Vehicle Removal; Monitoring; Building Demolition; Batgates and Results Menu. Part Two covers Keys to Remember, Questions & Answers and Closing Thoughts. | ||
Oil and Gas | |||
| Onshore Oil and Gas Order #1 An Overview of the Application for Permit to Drill Process for The Oil and Gas Industry | Onshore Order #1 provides the requirements for the approval of operations on all oil and gas exploratory, development, or service wells on Federal and Indian (other than those of the Osage Tribe) onshore oil and gas leases, including leases where the surface is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.Since the rule’s publishing in 1983, certain laws such as the 1987 Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 have passed, legal opinions written, court cases decided, and other policy and procedural changes made. This rule reflects these changes.This presenation provides a number of instructional video segments on the revised Order and the APD process. A panel discussion and question and answer period is also included in the website. | ||
Business Admin & Financial Management | |||
| BLM - Automated Fleet Management System (AFMS) | This information was originally presented as a satellite training broadcast on October 4, 2007. We have modified it to provide the information as a reference tool without having to register for the course. If you wish to take this as a training, you may access it through DOI LEARN as course 1500-27. AFMS is a BLM-developed system that has been in use in the Bureau for many years. This presentation introduces you to the new web-based version of AFMS, with new system functionality and design, that was implemented at the start of FY 2008. | ||
Fire | |||
Expert: Warming Climate Fuels Mega-Fires Scott Pelley Reports A 60 Minutes segment regarding the current trend towards larger wildland fires. Includes some footage of former BLM Division Chief of Fire Operations, Tom Boatner that offers some very good insight into the changing landscape and climate resulting in these large fires. Thomas W. Swetnam, Director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research & Professor of Dendrochronology at The University of Arizona is interviewed discussing changes from historic conditions. There is also some discussion of the Wildland Urban Interface. Video Courtesy of CBS | |||
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